On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 15:41 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Martin Langhoff > <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 13:13 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >>> I agree with the desire to maintain only one tool. However, NM is > >>> extremely desktop oriented, and there seems to include no hint of an > >>> intention to support the complex setups that are possible with the old > >>> ifcfg infra. > >> > >> Really? Most of the work over the past couple of years in NM seems to > >> be aimed at trying to support these cases as opposed to just the > >> "simple" desktop case > > > > That's odd -- I've never seen any of it. Are there good examples of > > how you configure a server to do special stuff with it? Or a > > 'scripting network-manager' guide somewhere? > > A bit of reading of the NM website and published docs makes me think > that Jeremy is probably overoptimistic about the applicability of NM > to server roles, and any intentions of scriptability. I was going to say "didn't this thread already cover that there's a need for some people to help with documentation", but I think that was actually on the other NM thread :) So I'll instead just say "be cautious on believing too much of what's documented; it's often a good way to mislead yourself about the state of a project" :-) Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
